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3D Labs streamer?

I am looking for a quality streamer and I was considering all the usual ones, Lumin, Auralic, Aurender, DCS network bridge, etc. I saw a post mentioned a streamer that I never heard of, namely the 3D Labs Platinum streamer. I found their website, it is all in French but google translate is your friend... It sounds an interesting product, it talks about the power supply which sounds like a good one and uses an FPGA but not much more information is given. I couldn’t find many articles on this streamer on the web or in forums either. Has anyone heard of it? Btw I am only interested in AES/EBU output, USB is of no interest to me.

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mattmiller
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Smaller companies making small digital products are a dime a dozen and come and go with the wind, at minimum they provide little to no customer service. Go with one of the major companies.

 

 

Matt M

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oddiofyl
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Agree with the support aspect.   Crucial in this arena of products

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mapman
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I agree with streamers best to go with the big boys. Little value that boutique brands can add and in fact they may struggle to keep up .

I ended up with a Cambridge Evo 150 that replaced separate monoblock amps, pre-amp, phono pre, DAC and streamer. Very happy!

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Ok with the big players but remember few years back they were newcomers too that hardly anyone knew of. I am all for supporting innovative companies that give you value for money. Of course the risk is you may get a half baked product or later no support if the said company goes under.

Anyway coming back to the question to give you a little more information about my system, the new streamer will be connected to a Trinnov ST2 Hifi that does DRC and that feeds a Weiss DAC202 which performs best with firewire (remember it?) or AES/EBU inputs. As the source, I am currently using a slightly optimised PC with a firewire card or a Teac VRDS CD player.

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